{"id":2690,"date":"2024-06-02T08:22:51","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T13:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/?p=2690"},"modified":"2024-06-02T08:32:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T13:32:20","slug":"come-fly-with-me-herb-alpert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/02\/come-fly-with-me-herb-alpert\/","title":{"rendered":"Come Fly With Me \u2014 Herb Alpert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cI play it just about every day of my life\u2013not because I have to, but because it\u2019s something that gives me pleasure. That\u2019s what I tell kids when they ask what\u2019s the secret to being successful in the music industry. If you\u2019re not really passionate about what you\u2019re doing or if you\u2019re doing it because there are some benefits like attracting chicks, forget it, man. While you\u2019re sleeping someone else is practicing who wants the exact same thing you want.\u201d
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Herb Alpert, interview for his (fantastic) album Come Fly With Me, by KC Ifeanyi in Fast Company<\/a>, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou never really get to where you want on an instrument. Dizzy Gillespie was a friend of mine and Dizzy used to say, \u2018The closer you get, the farther it looks.\u2019 It\u2019s a never-ending challenge.\u201d
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\u201cI play it just about every day of my life\u2013not because I have to, but because it\u2019s something that gives me pleasure. That\u2019s what I tell kids when they ask what\u2019s the secret to being successful in the music industry. If you\u2019re not really passionate about what you\u2019re doing or if you\u2019re doing it because there are some benefits like attracting chicks, forget it, man. While you\u2019re sleeping someone else is practicing who wants the exact same thing you want.\u201d Herb Alpert, interview for his (fantastic) album Come Fly With Me, by KC Ifeanyi in Fast Company, 2015. \u201cYou never … Continue reading Come Fly With Me \u2014 Herb Alpert<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,6],"tags":[45,17,46],"class_list":["post-2690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-link-to-articles","tag-mastery","tag-passion","tag-perpetual-pursuit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2690"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2696,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690\/revisions\/2696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}